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Michael J. Goodmon EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CAPITOL BROADCASTING COMPANY INC.
’m known as LeeLee in the Goodmon household. I babysat for Michael and Liz’s kids from the time I was a freshman in high school through my early post-college years, and Leigh-Kathryn is hard for tiny humans to say. But it wasn’t until I was in college that I realized exactly what the Goodmon family
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Our ability to solve the significant problems we face as a community relies on breaking barriers. This starts with the long-lost art of the benefit of doubt; a simple belief that another’s intentions are not unlike your own in terms of the foundational basis of community advancement. The world’s not perfect, and I’m not usually unduly optimistic. But I believe that if I give you that basic trust, and you do the same for me, we can get somewhere for the good of all. Durham desperately needs to drive toward a cohesive vision for what it can be for everyone over the next 20 years. I truly hope we can find our way into this discussion.